The goal of developing Astade was to develop a UML tool where you can develop at model level and automatically generate source code for C/C++.

The Astade program is a complete front-end (GUI) for software development (in C and C++) which can be customised for any compiler (the GNU compiler is the default).

At first glance this seemed to be a big deal. But Astade combined some tools, already available, and so it was possible!

The main ideas to minimise effort are:

    the model tree is built in the directory structure of the operating system.
    most graphics are done with Graphviz except sequence charts. They are done with Trace2UML
    the documentation is done with Doxygen
    GUI design we do with a wxGlade integration.

So we end up with a little “user dialogue” and a good “code generator”; it's a great tool, try it!